Over 330 kg (727 lbs) of this eucrite (achondrite) fell in a shower of stones over Millbillillie and Jundee Stations, Wiluna district, Western Australia, in October of 1960. Amazingly, despite the fall being observed by station workers, the first of these meteorites was not collected until 1970. Eucrites are the most common type of achondrite […]
Category: Meteorites
Bells
September’s Meteorite of the Month is Bells, a C2-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Bells, Texas, September 9th of 1961. In his 1963 article “The Bells, Texas, Meteorite” (Meteoritics. 2:1, p.67), Oscar E. Monnig describes the fall: "A detonating fireball, September 9, 1961, over northeast Texas resulted in a fall of meteorites. By a prompt […]
Acapulco
Acapulco fell in El Quemado Colony, just outside Acapulco, Mexico, August 11th of 1976. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 55), the finder’s account is that “the bolide followed a west to east trajectory, producing a buzz similar to that of a small aeroplane and an impact like that of a cannon ball. It landed […]
Chela
Chela is an ordinary chondrite (H5) that fell in the Kahama district of Tanzania around noon on July 12th, 1988. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 68), locals were alerted to the fall by a loud noise and detonations. They collected several of the fallen stones, and some were sent to the police and to […]
Abee
Abee is an EH4 (enstatite) chondrite that fell in northern Alberta. According to Griffin et al. (1992), around 11pm on the night of June 9th, 1952, the sky north of Edmonton was lit up by a brilliant fireball. One observer at a local drive-in movie theater even claimed that it was so bright that the […]
